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Galway, Cliffs of Moher & Connemara: 2-Day Combo Tour
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This two-day tour from Dublin covers a lot of the west of Ireland’s best scenery, with an overnight stay in Galway included. It’s a practical way to see Connemara, Galway city, the Cliffs of Moher, and the Burren without having to plan your own logistics.
Day one heads west from Dublin, passing the bogs of Allen in the Irish midlands before reaching Connemara. The route takes in Lough Corrib, Maam Valley, and the remote wilderness that makes this one of Europe’s most striking stretches of landscape. Between April and October, there’s a visit to Glengowla family farm and show mines, including sheepdog demonstrations. From November to March, the tour instead visits the charming village of Cong. The day finishes in Galway, where your guide will find a pub by Galway Bay - expect traditional music and a chance to take in the city’s atmosphere. An optional walking tour of Galway is available for those who want to see more of the city before bed.
Day two takes you south into County Clare for the Cliffs of Moher, rising dramatically above the Atlantic, and a stop in the Burren, with its extraordinary moon-like limestone landscape. The day also includes a visit to Doolin, a small village well known for traditional Irish music sessions.
Overnight accommodation with breakfast in Galway is included in the price.
The overnight in Galway is genuinely worth using. The medieval quarter is compact enough to explore on foot after dinner, and the city’s trad scene is the real thing - Tigh Coili on Shop Street runs serious sessions from around 9:30pm, and the Crane Bar is a three-storey pub where the ground-floor session is fifty-fifty local players and lost travellers in the best way. Sessions start late, so even a late dinner doesn’t mean you miss them.
If you take the optional Galway walking tour, it covers the medieval core well - but the Claddagh neighbourhood at the western end is the bit most walking tours rush past. Worth pausing at the harbour there if you get the chance; the Claddagh ring originated in that small fishing community and the story is better than the souvenir.
Day one passes along Lough Corrib through Oughterard, where the farming country stops and Connemara begins. The village is the last fuel and coffee stop on the N59 before the roads narrow - the Buach Beag café on Main Street does soups and sandwiches until four if you need a break between the bus legs.
On day two, the twenty-minute Doolin stop is a taste of a village that rewards a longer visit. Doolin has four pubs and sessions most nights; if you’re ever back in the area with a flexible day, staying overnight and walking south to the Cliffs along the coastal path - no turnstile, no car park - is a completely different experience to the visitor centre.
Most tours approach the Cliffs of Moher from the visitor centre end. The other approach is Liscannor to the south, where the Hag’s Head end of the same cliff trail starts at a small car park above the village with no fee and far fewer people. Vaughan’s Anchor Inn in the village has been serving seafood since 1979 and is the right stop for anyone coming back down from the cliffs.
The Burren’s wildflowers peak in May and June when Mediterranean and Arctic orchids bloom side by side in the limestone cracks. Ballyvaughan is the village on the Burren’s northern edge - if day two’s route takes you through, Monk’s Pub by the pier does the chowder you came to Clare for. If that window is an option for your trip, it’s the best possible time for day two.
Lisdoonvarna sits ten minutes inland from Doolin on the R480, and the road between them is one of the better scenic drives in the west - proper limestone country, grey walls, goats. If the tour passes through, the Roadside Tavern runs sessions most weekends.